Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

1K quotes · Politician, Philosopher, Orator

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

Spiritual

“Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]”

Water Wickedness Stains

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

Courageous

“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”

Opportunity Ambition Philosophical

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Grateful

“There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.”

Kindness Duty

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Melancholic

“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”

Errors Fool

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Angry

“Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.”

Fall Enemy Friend Enemy

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Angry

“The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.”

Hope Impunity

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Creative

“All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.”

Art Mutual

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Philosophical

“Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.”

Calumny Is Calumny

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Courageous

“Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.”

Advice Weather Pilots

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Hopeful

“Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.”

Long Breathe

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Wise

“Virtue is its own reward.”

Inspirational Inspiring

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Wise

“It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.”

Men Mind Flames

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